Americas
Miami Talks End Early as Trump Moves to Ease Russian Diesel Sanctions
Two days of US, Ukrainian and European consultations wrapped ahead of schedule, and within hours Washington’s agenda had shifted to fuel. Kyiv says the trade-off is backwards, and…
Washington Reportedly Links Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine to Refinery Strikes
A US demand to halt attacks on Russian oil refineries may have been delivered with a warning about intelligence, and Washington says no such threat was made. The…
Tehran Uses Netanyahu’s Legal and Oct. 7 Troubles to Press Its Case Against US-Israel Ties
Iran’s foreign minister says Netanyahu is spending American lives to save himself, a charge that lands harder in Israel than Tehran may intend, and that Iranian hardliners and…
U.S. Strategic Oil Reserve Falls Below 300 Million Barrels as Releases Stack Up
Washington has now drawn on its emergency stockpile three times in five months, and the latest withdrawal came from a Gulf of Mexico that was already partly shut…
Trump Says Ukraine Needs a New Leader Who Can Make a Deal
Washington’s push for a Ukrainian leader who ‘makes deals’ arrived through an Israeli Telegram channel, and the wording exposes a gap between what Trump wants from Kyiv and…
Hurricane Isaias Shuts In Most of Gulf of Mexico Oil Output
Iranian state-linked media put the outage above 70 percent, while US outlets reported closer to two-thirds. The gap matters for a Gulf market already tight from the Iran…
Iran-China Chamber Puts Gulf Freight at $41 a Barrel as Brent Closes Near $104
Tehran and Beijing’s business lobby says the $50 oil forecast for 2026 is gone. The figure it cites is not the one that matters most, and the gap…
Spain and Greece Decline to Release Expiring Patriot Interceptors to Ukraine
Athens reportedly holds about 200 PAC-2 rounds that will be retired within months, yet has not offered them to Kyiv. The reason may say more about NATO’s southern…
- By Diana Lopez
Trump Strikes Diesel Deal With Putin as Ukraine’s Refinery Campaign Becomes a Bargaining Chip
Washington reportedly asked Kyiv six times to stop hitting Russian refineries. When the strikes continued, the White House turned to a fuel arrangement with Moscow, and the terms…
Trump Claims Russia Will Supply Hundreds of Thousands of Tons of Solar Energy to U.S. Markets
Former president asserts Moscow committed to immediate delivery of over 300,000 tons following successful Putin call, citing dramatic price drops ahead.